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I came back from a quick road trip with a trunk full of hackable hardware. After grabbing a little caffeine this morning, I thought we'd try something different for those slow Sundays. I'm going to come up some interesting hacking kit, point out a few classic hacks for it, and challenge you guys to come up with something better. Every so often, we'll be sending some of said hardware to the most worthy of commenters. Read on to check out our first 'Hackit' challenge.
Let's start things off with a classic: The TiVo. TiVos got some major interest as soon as the words 'Linux' and 'TiVo' were uttered together. The hacking scene for the hardware has some odd quirks. Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about hacking them is buried in the forums at deal database. Most of the hacks are geared toward video extraction or adding features like networking or on screen caller ID.
Today, older TiVo's are dirt cheap. Just about every sattelite/cable/fiber company will provide a DVR for a small fee. So, what can we do with all that nice, integrated video hardware? Make a cheap disguised file server? Roll your own security DVR? Use them to stream video feeds from inexpensive cameras? Re-work the faster one's into networked media players? Or is there a better way to slave them into a MythTV network? (I've never been into the latter since my local cable is junk and the dual tuner sattelite units are cheaper per tuner.)

So, got a better idea? Lets hear it.
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]]>Will O'Brien2007-11-04T22:18:00+00:00Network and shell hacks for Tivo Series 1http://www.hackaday.com/2005/01/04/network-and-shell-hacks-for-tivo-series-1/http://www.hackaday.com/2005/01/04/network-and-shell-hacks-for-tivo-series-1/http://www.hackaday.com/2005/01/04/network-and-shell-hacks-for-tivo-series-1/#commentsFiled under:

hacked Tivo

Here's a nice a comprehensive guide to start exploring network, telnet and web hacking for your Tivo Series 1 standalone or directTiVo. It covers installing a network adapter, getting telnet access, installing TiVo web, and installing binaries like TiVo FTP server for further hacking delight. Get through this and be the only one at the party who can speak fluent TiVo…

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]]>Barb Dybwad2005-01-04T00:56:00+00:00series 2 tivo hackinghttp://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/05/series-2-tivo-hacking/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/05/series-2-tivo-hacking/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/05/series-2-tivo-hacking/#commentsFiled under:

tivo

in the effort of getting all the tivo hacks up here, this is one sent in (thanks everyone) is a cook book on upgrading a stock sa2, adding more hard disk space, second drives, or getting command line access and tivoweb running on it. it's not for the advanced hardcore folks, but a good start. if you have other ones, send them in or post'em up!

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]]>Phillip Torrone2004-12-05T01:06:00+00:00extracting video from a tivo series 1 with mac os xhttp://www.hackaday.com/2004/11/15/extracting-video-from-a-tivo-series-1-with-mac-os-x/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/11/15/extracting-video-from-a-tivo-series-1-with-mac-os-x/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/11/15/extracting-video-from-a-tivo-series-1-with-mac-os-x/#commentsFiled under: ,

extracting video from a tivo series 1 with mac os x

a few people have sent in a lot of kind words about putting all the tivo hacks  in one spot on the web, here in our tivo.hackaday.com section. one request someone had was for the mac peeps and how to get the shows off a series 1 tivo under mac os x, so here ya go!

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]]>Phillip Torrone2004-11-15T05:10:00+00:00interactive tivo upgrade guide (over 44 models)http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/12/interactive-tivo-upgrade-guide-over-44-models/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/12/interactive-tivo-upgrade-guide-over-44-models/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/12/interactive-tivo-upgrade-guide-over-44-models/#commentsFiled under:

tivo

this is _the_ resource for upgrading your tivo. choose your model (over 44 available), choose the type of upgrade (add a drive, replace a drive, add two drives, or restore). set the options, then get the detailed instructions. nicely done.

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]]>Phillip Torrone2004-10-12T04:30:00+00:00add rss feeds to series 1 and series 2 tivoshttp://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/02/add-rss-feeds-to-series-1-and-series-2-tivos/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/02/add-rss-feeds-to-series-1-and-series-2-tivos/http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/02/add-rss-feeds-to-series-1-and-series-2-tivos/#commentsFiled under:

rss on tivo

i'll be adding an entire section on tivo hacking, but for now, here's a cool hack to display rss feeds on your series 1/2 tivo. just grab the tivo control station and this hack and you're good to go.

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]]>Phillip Torrone2004-10-02T03:38:00+00:00